Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
sense_n apostle_n speak_v word_n 3,803 5 4.2444 3 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A60981 Of remembrance and imitation of deceased holy rulers a sermon preach'd at Rotterdam, March the 15th 1695, new style, the day of Her Majesty's funeral / by John Spademan ... Spademan, John, d. 1708. 1695 (1695) Wing S4783; ESTC R33848 14,703 31

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

Princes and Great Men have expended their Treasures on Buildings and other magnificent durable Works as we read of Absalom's Pillar erected only to preserve his Name 2 Sam. 18.18 And 't is related by Moses that one chief design of those who built the Tower of Babel was to make themselves a Name i. e. to procure for themselves an Honourable Remembrance after Death Gen. 11.4 [a] Tacitus relates How Tiberius signified to the Roman Senate that it was his chief Request both to the Romans and their Allies That whenever He should dye they would honour his Deeds and Name with Praise and a Good Remembrance Annal. IV. Cap. 38. Where the Remark of that Author expresseth the common Sentimenss Vnum insatiatiliter parandum prosperam sui memoriam II. All the Methods us'd by wicked Men can't procure 'em an honourable Remembrance after death While they live their Power and Terror may gain some Flattering Praises but after death their Name is condemn'd to Infamy and Reproach Prov. 10.7 * The name of the wicked shall rot There is an Art of embalming dead Bodies to prevent their Putrefaction but nothing can embalm the Name of the Wicked Many times their Memory is quite forgot and buried under the dust of Time notwithstanding all their Endeavours to preserve and perpetuate it [b] The true Names of those who built the famous Aegyptian Pyramids have long since been lost Wo●…n's Reflections on Ant. Learn Pag. 107. But if they are remembred 't is with Infamy and Execration as are Absolom Haman Herod Nero and many more who have left their Name for a Curse as God did once threaten the Idolatrous Jews Isa 65.15 III. 'T is the Will of God that the Righteous should have an honourable Remembrance after their death This is one Reward which the supreme Ruler hath adjudg'd to them that fear God Psal 119.6 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance And to such who want Children to perpetuate their Memory God did promise to give a Name better then of sons and daughters Isa 55.5 And this is laid down as an universal Maxim that The Memory of the Just is blessed or honourable Prov. 10.7 Many are the Instances of those who lived obscure and unregarded to whom after their death God has given a Name that has excell'd the Honour of Princes Mary the Sister of Lazarus who poured the precious Ointment on the Head of Christ hath a lasting and honourable Remembrance where-ever the Gospel is preach'd Matth. 26.13 Act. 18.3 Aquila and Priscilla who were but mean Tent-makers yet have had their Praise in all the Churches and will have so to the end of the World IV. The honourable Remembrance of Religious Rulers after their death is very useful to the World For 1. The Consideration of this is proper to excite Rulers unto Religion and Piety while they live Indeed this ought not to be the principal Motive but it may be regarded in its place as a lower Reward which the divine Bounty bestows on them who have faithfully served him Among other Marks of God's Favour by which David was encouraged unto the Service of God this is mention'd that the Lord had given him a Name like to the Name of the great men that are in the Earth 2 Sam. 7.9 Whatever doth animate and excite a Magistrate unto Religion and Vertue as the Honour that attends 'em is proper to do must highly promote the common Good And 2. The honourable Remembrance of holy Rulers gives a lasting Influence unto their good Example after their death 'T is truly observ'd by the Psalmist that when the breath or spirit of a Prince goes forth or departs out of the Body in that very day all his thoughts perish Psal 146.4 But surely 't is not the Will of God that the Example of a Good Ruler should perish also No this is too precious a thing to go down into the Grave and be cover'd in darkness The E●…cacy of a Pious Example ought long to survive the Person who gave it Many Years after David's decease his holy Example did influence the Young and Excellent Prince Josias of whom 't is said 2 Chron. 34.2 That he walk'd in the ways of David his Father i. e. He imitated the Piety and Righteousness of David which were carefully transmitted unto after Ages The best Examples in the World can have no influence unless they be kept alive by a due remembrance of ' em Hence it became a most common practice in the ancient Church to appoint an annual Commemoration of the Martyrs whose Examples were judg'd to have the greatest efficacy It must therefore be an inexcusable negligence to forget the Faith and Holiness which alone we are oblig'd to imitate And this leads us to consider the II. And principal Duty enjoin'd in the Text and laid down in these Words Whose Faith follow or imitate where it must be premis'd that the Word Faith in this place must not be taken in the strict sense as it denotes an internal Act of the Soul by which a convinc'd Sinner receiveth Christ as He is offered to us in the Gospel but in a larger signification as it imports Christian Piety or Holiness which is the constant Fruit of Faith in the former sense And 't is not unusual with the Apostle to take this Word Faith in the Metonymical Sense as where He mentions the unfeign'd Faith or Piety which was in Timothy and had first dwelt in his Grandmother and Mother 2 Tim. 1.5 Thus in the same Epistle Chap. 4.6 speaking of Himself he saith I have fought the good fight of Faith i. e. I have acted as a true Christian Soldier or Combatant Again in this Epistle Heb. 12.2 Christ is styl'd The Author and the Finisher of our Faith i. e. The Leader and Rewarder of Christian Piety And indeed 't is not possible to imitate the Faith of others but as it is discovered in a holy Conversation by which a visible Copy or Pattern is propounded to our Imitation the Nature of which is so well known that I need only mention the particular Ingredients of it As 1. An esteeming Judgment which is made concerning an Example set before us I can't seriously imitate that which I despise and disesteem To which must be added 2. An attentive regarding of this Example A Limner must attentively view the Original which he intends to draw We read when Gideon would have his Soldiers imitate what himself did he saith Look on me and do likewise Jud. 7.17 The 3. And principal Ingredient in Imitation is the actual resembling of an Example set before us As when a writing Scholar imitates a Copy given by his Master he makes his Letters and Writing like unto the Copy So that when the Apostle requires us to follow or imitate the Faith of deceas'd Rulers his meaning is in other Words T is indeed your Duty to remember them who have had the rule over you their Faith and Holiness must be